tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post5631495735629114476..comments2023-10-18T14:53:28.622+01:00Comments on Forest Murmurs: On the True Understanding of Vatican IIFr Michael Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15320336535138538635noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-66460421114776695352009-10-21T13:07:47.813+01:002009-10-21T13:07:47.813+01:00Father,
Thank you for muddying the waters - (sorr...Father,<br /><br />Thank you for muddying the waters - (sorry, clearing up the definition)-<br />I still don't know what it means. I realise a product of St Cuthbert's Grammar School and Ushaw should be able to grasp a concept, and I feel like the notorious (sorry, well known) Canon Cassidy who once said, "Every time I open my mouth, some fool speaks" "My Lad!"1569 Risingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-72296265550948572422009-10-21T09:17:10.153+01:002009-10-21T09:17:10.153+01:00Lol! However hermeneutic means more than just inte...Lol! However hermeneutic means more than just interpretation. It means `principle of interpretation`.Fr Michael Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15320336535138538635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35539648.post-31080115480545727092009-10-16T19:51:23.699+01:002009-10-16T19:51:23.699+01:00To us simple people who reside far from the toweri...To us simple people who reside far from the towering intellectual heights of contemporary theology in Sioux Falls, Iowa, the pastoral letter of Bishop Nickless is "stirring stuff" indeed, and fulfills all our personal prejudices (wrong word, I know, but you get my meaning).<br /><br />BUT<br />I only wish someone would consign that damned word "hermeneutic" to the shredder of history. I realise that it is a word in everyday use in Sioux City, Forest Hall and Longbenton, indeed one can see knots of people in the shopping centres discussing the word in animated and sometimes violent groups. However, south of the Tyne, it is hardly used, apart from down the Teams on a Friday night, but I realise that it is in everyday use in Hartlepool - they think it has something to do with Herman's Newts.<br /><br />That is the trouble; we used to have an English word, "interpretation", which seemed to have served a useful purpose, but that was far too straightforward for the theologians, who dug up some obscure Greek based word which only they knew, and now they are inflicting it on the rest of us simple folk.<br /><br />Proposed resolution for all clerics:<br /><br />"I hereby promise NEVER to use the word HERMENEUTIC when I speak either formally or informally to anyone apart from fellow clerics, and only then in a low voice"<br /><br />When the great Sioux Chief, Sitting Bull, was killed in battle in 1890, was he distracted by the debates going on in the tepees about the Hermeneutics of Continuity or Dis-Continuity. The Bishop of Sioux Falls should tell us.1569 Risingnoreply@blogger.com